Elinor Ostrom | |
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 Ostrom in 2009 | |
| Born | Elinor Claire Awan August 7, 1933 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | June 12, 2012 (aged 78) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA, PhD) |
| Spouses | Charles Scott Vincent Ostrom (1963–2012; her death) |
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| School or tradition | New institutional economics |
| Doctoral advisor | Dwaine Marvick |
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Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist[1][2][3] whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.[4] In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson; she was the first woman to win the prize.[5]
Trained in political science at UCLA, Ostrom was a faculty member at Indiana University in Bloomington for 47 years. Beginning in the 1960s, Ostrom was involved in resource management policy and created a research center, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which attracted scientists from different disciplines from around the world. Working and teaching at her center was created on the principle of a workshop, rather than a university with lectures and a strict hierarchy. Late in her career, she held an affiliation with Arizona State University.
Ostrom studied the interaction of people and ecosystems for many years and showed that the use of exhaustible resources by groups of people (communities, cooperatives, trusts, trade unions) can be rational and prevent depletion of the resource without either state intervention or markets with private property.[6]
- ^ "No Panaceas! Elinor Ostrom talks with Fran Korten". Shareable: Civic System. March 18, 2010. Archived from the original on February 16, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ Janssen, M. A. (2012). "Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012)". Nature. 487 (7406): 172. Bibcode:2012Natur.487..172J. doi:10.1038/487172a. PMID 22785305.
- ^ Wilson, R. K. (2012). "Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012)". Science. 337 (6095): 661. Bibcode:2012Sci...337..661W. doi:10.1126/science.1227725. PMID 22879496. S2CID 206544072.
- ^ Aligica, Paul Dragos; Boettke, Peter (2010). "Ostrom, Elinor". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Online ed.).
- ^ "Nobel Prize Awarded Women". Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ Ostrom, Elinor (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–3. ISBN 978-0-521-40599-7.